Matt Davignon comments: "Well, the people who dislike experimental music are right. The bulk of the work that gets heard by non-new-music-specialists could fall under the umbrella of overly-intellectual/dissonant/heartless sort of stuff. A lot of experimental and 'new' music -is- too intellectual for non-music-majors to understand. And lots and lots of stuff has no emotional value." on the Bay Area New Music Discussion Group, October 12, 2007 "[NewMusic] (No subject)". Archived from the original on October 6, 2008. Retrieved December 6, 2009.
The name Matt Ingalls chose for the "Bay Area New Music" mailing list: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 27, 2009. Retrieved October 29, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
"Momentum picked up at a China Basin restaurant called Olive Oil's, where Rick Rees cultivated a nascent 'improvcore' scene with established units like Rova and such newcomers as the rock-rooted Molecules" -- Derk Richardson, "Sites and sounds" The San Francisco Bay Guardian February 5, 1997, http://www.plonsey.com/beanbenders/SFBayGuardian020597.htmlArchived July 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
Derk Richardson, Listen up", the Noise section of The San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 4, 2003 (Vol. 37, Iss. 36): "Although based in New York, and sometimes Japan, saxophonist John Zorn became a towering role model for many Bay Area improvisers and composers through radically varied performances and such seminal projects as his 'game' piece Cobra." http://www.sfbg.com/noise/2003-06/shiurba_sb.html
Derk Richardson, "Listen up", "The unique pleasures of the creative music scene demand to be heard", the Noise section of The San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 4, 2003 (Vol. 37, Iss. 36) http://www.sfbg.com/noise/2003-06/shiurba_sb.html
Derk Richardson alludes to the naming problem in a "Listen up" column in the "Noise" section of The San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 4, 2003 (Vol. 37, Issue 36): "... a tremendous amount of insight into the whys and wherefores of the local avant-garde, er, new music, ah, creative music, um, improv scene" http://www.sfbg.com/noise/2003-06/shiurba_sb.html
Matthew Goodheart comments:"... what Mills more often represents: contemporary aesthetics, iconoclasm, the challenging of what music is, the underdog, the school for artists for which the world has no place. The contradictory experimental tradition." "Lachenmann at Mills", part 1, The Transbay Creative Music Calendar, March 2008 http://www.transbaycalendar.org/archive/TB_2008_03.pdf
Matt Davignon comments: "Well, the people who dislike experimental music are right. The bulk of the work that gets heard by non-new-music-specialists could fall under the umbrella of overly-intellectual/dissonant/heartless sort of stuff. A lot of experimental and 'new' music -is- too intellectual for non-music-majors to understand. And lots and lots of stuff has no emotional value." on the Bay Area New Music Discussion Group, October 12, 2007 "[NewMusic] (No subject)". Archived from the original on October 6, 2008. Retrieved December 6, 2009.
The name Matt Ingalls chose for the "Bay Area New Music" mailing list: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 27, 2009. Retrieved October 29, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
"Momentum picked up at a China Basin restaurant called Olive Oil's, where Rick Rees cultivated a nascent 'improvcore' scene with established units like Rova and such newcomers as the rock-rooted Molecules" -- Derk Richardson, "Sites and sounds" The San Francisco Bay Guardian February 5, 1997, http://www.plonsey.com/beanbenders/SFBayGuardian020597.htmlArchived July 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
